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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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by Sutton Nicholls, is in the possession of Mr. 

 George Daniel of Canonbury, and the hornpipe is 

 printed as "The Famous Darbysheire Hornpipe" 

 in — 



'• An Extraordinary Collection of Pleasant and Merry- 

 Humours, containing Hornpipes, Jiggs, North-Country 

 Frisks, Morrises, Bagpipe-Hornpipes, and Rounds, with, 

 severall additional Fancies added: fit for all that play 

 [in] publick." [1713.] 



A copy of this book is iii the British Museum. 

 The lines are — 



." Before three monarchs I my skill did prove, 

 Of many lords and knights I had the love ; 

 There's no musician e'er did know the peer 

 Of Hale the Pipek, in fair Darby-shire." 



William Chappell. 



Black-Gtjaed (1 st S. passim.) — In an old 

 French dictionary*, I find the following explana- 

 tion given of this term : — 



" On appelle ainsi de jeunes gueux qui serveut dans un 

 corps- de-garde, les goujats." 



What authority is there for this statement ? If 

 correct, is it not the origin of our present word 

 hlachguard f T. Lampeay. 



Edgab Family (2 nd S. ix. 334.) —Your corre- 

 spondent is decidedly wrong in writing of "Edgar 

 of Keithock and Wedderlie." The families were 

 quite distinct : they existed contemporaneously, 

 one in Forfarshire, the other in the county of 

 Berwick ; and they do not appear to have held 

 any communication with each other. 



Wedderlie is in Berwickshire ; and the Edgars 

 of Wedderlie claimed descent from Edgar, second 

 son of Cospateich, second Earl of Dunbar, and 

 from Richard Edgar, who, in the thirteenth cen- 

 tury, married the eldest daughter and coheiress 

 of Robert de Roos, Lord of Sanquhar ; and they 

 carried for arms the lion argent of Dunbar, quar- 

 tered with three water budgets for De Roos; they 

 had greyhounds for supporters ; a dexter hand 

 holding a dagger point downwards for crest ; and 

 their motto was " Maun do it." (See Douglas's 

 Peerage and Nisbet's Heraldry.) The Edgars 

 continued to possess Wedderlie till the middle of 

 the eighteenth century, when the remnant of their 

 once extensive estate passed to Lord Blantyre. 

 The only male descendant of the last proprietors 

 was the late Rear-Admiral Alexander Edgar, 

 who left an only daughter and only child, Maria 

 Bethia Edgar. This lady, who was twice mar- 

 ried, — litly, to Captain Campbell, R.N., and, 

 2ndly, to Dr. Tait, — died at Boulogne in the 

 Spring of 1856. There were several branches of 

 the Wedderlie family in Berwickshire, who may, 

 or may not, lie extinct, — as Edgar of Westenther ; 

 Edgar of Evelaw, whose tower I have seen stand- 

 ing in ruins, but of whose representatives I can give 



[* Qu., Whoso, and of what date? ~ En.] 



no account ; and Edgar of Newtounde Birgham, 

 which was acquired in the seventeenth century 

 by Richard Edgar (son of Oliver Edgar, a cadet 

 of Wedderlie, by Margaret, daughter of George 

 Pringle of Torwoodlee), and which remained in 

 possession of his descendants till 1808. Of this 

 family the representative, I believe, was the Rev. 

 John Edgar, of Hutton, Berwickshire, who died a 

 few years ago. 



Keithock is, I think, in Forfarshire ; and look- 

 ing at the armorial bearings of the Edgars of 

 Keithock (viz. a lion rampant between a garb in 

 chief and a writing pen in base ; crest, a dagger 

 crossed with a quill ; motto, " Potius ingenio 

 quam vi"), I think it highly probable, indeed, 

 that the family was founded by a cadet of Wed- 

 derlie. But I must observe that Nisbet does not 

 say so when he mentions the armorial bearings, as 

 I cannot help thinking he would assuredly have 

 done, if either he or his friend "the Laird of 

 Wedderlie," to whom he alludes in his valuable 

 work, bad known such to be the case. I have 

 heard that this family (to which belonged Mr. 

 Edgar, secretary to the Chevalier), after remov- 

 ing from the neighbourhood of Glasgow, went to 

 the Isle of Man, and thence to America, but for 

 the truth of this I cannot vouch. It is certain, 

 however (and a glance at Nisbet will convince 

 anyone), that the families of Wedderlie and 

 Keithock were quite distinct, and that no Scot- 

 tish genealogist would fail to perceive your cor- 

 respondent's error in writing of "the family of 

 Edgar of Keithock and Wedderlie." C. W. 



Hymns (2 nd S. ix. 234. 314.) — Me. Sedgwick 

 states positively that " the tune called Olivers was 

 composed by Thomas Olivers between the years 

 1762 and 1770," and refers to Creamer and Ste- 

 vens as authorities. Stevens I have not seen. 

 Creamer's statement is founded on the following 

 by the Rev. Thos. Jackson : — 



" Memoirs of the Bev. Charles Wesley, M.A., abridged 

 edition (p. 360.) : 



" The fine melody, entitled ' Helmsley,' and adapted to 

 the hymn ' Lo he comes with clouds descending,' was com- 

 posed by him (Olivers)." 



Again : 



" Lives of Early Methodist Preachers (vol. i. p. 166.) : 

 " He (Olivers) also wrote a hymn on the last judgment, 

 consisting of several stanzas which he set to music him- 

 self." 



I find, on comparison, that the " Olivers " of 

 Wesley's Sacred Harmony, and the " Helmsley " 

 of modern Psalm Books, are the same tune in 

 different keys ; and that " Helmsley" is uniformly 

 attributed to the Rev. Martin Madan, and is to 

 be found, I understand, in the Lock Collection, 

 1769. 



Would Mr. Sedgwick have the kindness to 

 say whether the title of Olivers' hymn is "A 

 Hymn on the Last Judgment set to Music by the 



